"The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that [you] and I were [running]. Suppose that in every possible way-physical and mental-we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?"

-- Brad Alan Lewis

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“T was a brilliant feeling to make my debut and to hear the crowd chanting my name. It made me play much better.”
“So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.”
“Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that's when you lose”
“I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?”
“I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.”
“I've always had goals, always had visions, always had a plan, always been very strategic.”

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“My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.”
“The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.”

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